Crossover Catalogue.

Crossover catalogue.

This catalogue is about an Exhibition called Crossover. 

The designers of this book is: Cara Griffith

Measurements of this catalogue: A4 size folded in half to make an A5 size catalogue. In this catalogue there are 8 pages.

  

This page is the cover of the book, where the image is layed out on the bottom right corner of the page.

The colour of the cover is also black and white, with a quote on the top left corner, showing the title in underlined red. On the next few pages images are layed out on a full page, with the texts on its on page, but only on one side of the page. 

I kind of dont like this catalogue because of the way its layed out and the way the text has been typed out. im a person that likes pages with heaps of stuff on. For example i dont like blank spaces, its a wierd space.

Reclaimed Materials

Lisa Walker.

I found this artist called Lisa Walker who makes jewellery from recycled materials.

Title: Pendant

Date: 2014

Materials: Wood, Lacquer, thread

Title: Pendant

Date: 2012

Materials: wood, glue, copper leaf

Title: Necklace

Date: 2013

Materials: wood, lacquer, plastic.

The types of materials that Lisa Walker uses, is wood pieces, copper and different sorts of recycled materials you can think of. She makes, pendants and necklaces from these materials and paints them.

Would i wear this piece of jewellery? Yes i would because its funky and different to what everyone else is wearing, with the gold chains and silver chains.

I like this jewellery artist because to me it looks simple to make these pendants/necklaces, and thats what i like, simple tasks.

http://www.lisawalker.de/home.html

Te tuhi

UNSTUCK IN TIME.

The names of the artist that took part in this exhibition is , Matthew Cowan, Phil Dadson, Sally J. Morgan, Shannon Te Ao and Layne Waerea.
These artist have show cased there works in between the time of 2nd of August and 26th of October.

This catalogue consists some of the artists works. The designer of this catalogue, Bruce E. Phillips, laid out the images in different type of ways. He used a full bleed lay out for one photo used a collage type style on other pages. Most of these photos has a white frame around it, to make it stand out.

This catalogue is an A5 type of catalogue, measured at 148 x 210mm - 5.8 x 8.3in and has 8 pages + the front cover and the back cover.

I like how this catalogue has been laid out and how the designer has placed the words nicely.

NZ Jewellery Artist

Joe Sheehan.

Joe Sheehan is a New Zealand born jewellery artist that studied at Unitec. 

He works around the materials of Nephrite jade, silver and Corian.

The way i recognised this as a NZ origin is because of the greenstone or the Jade. Maori's use this type of jade to make their Ponamu or a distinctive piece of Jewellery.

I think the way he has made this is, he must have cut the outside to make his shapes and sand the jade to make it smooth. 

The piece of work that i enjoy is that bunch of Keys he made. I found that interesting because i imagined that, what if there were car keys like that, instead of silver metal keys.

Title: Russian Dolls

Date: 2008

Size: 595mm w x 210mm h x 40mm d

Materials: Jade, 

Title: Everybody's keys II
Size: 250mm H x 250mm W
Date: 2008
Materials: Nephrite Jade / silver / lignum vitae/ Corian




ref: http://www.timmelville.com/artists/showArticle.php?file=joesheehan.xml

jewellery from another Culture.

Jewellery from another culture.

A piece of Jewellery that i found is from the country of Africa.

Africans love their Arts and Crafts including Jewellery. In the African Culture jewellery is made for personal appearance and personal accessory's. Their type of Jewellery come from people that want to carry on their identity, so to be recognised, they use materials around them. They also make masks with detailed designs that has a particular theme to it. This is all very important to the African Culture.

Jewellery that has been made, has been hand made by the African community, in the necklace's they wear, the materials that are in them use are all natural resources.

They use materials like Ivory, carved stone, bone, sea shells, animal teeth, animal hair, egg shells, wood, amber and glass. Africans use this type of Material because its organic, natural and they have easy access to them. They also use beads to make necklaces or jewellery, or they use beads in exchange for goods, in other words, beads was the african currency.

I learnt that the type of Jewellery they make is a mark/sign to where they come from and what their family status is. I also learnt that the materials they use are organic materials that can be found within their region and are all handmade jewellery.

Ref: http://interesting-africa-facts.com/African-Jewelry/African-Jewelry.shtml

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=interesting+facts+african+jewellery&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=gl1pVKXrD8u3uASbwICACw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1152&bih=891#tbm=isch&q=african%20necklaces&revid=482273840&imgdii=_ 

Women with Wings.

Women with Wings.

Title: Women with Wings.

Artist Name: Deborah Klein

Size: 24cm (H) x 20.5cm (W) x 1.5cm (D)

# of pages: 8

The book i found was made by an artist called Deborah Klein.

This type of book is called a concertina book, which is divided and folded into halves to make a concertina book. This concertina book called the " Women with wings " is made by different materials. Images that are shown have been stamped on and Linocuts have been used to make this book.

The theme that i recon that runs through this book, is "Women with Wings". Showing that the artist has used the moth on every page, on top of the womens face. 

Looking at this type of book, i found it cool and Fascinating, because the images are clean, especially the border around the image is clean. I also like how plain it is, because the black stands out on the creamish colour.

reference:  http://mothwomanpress.blogspot.co.nz/

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=women+with+wings+deborah+klein&safe=active&biw=1152&bih=891&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=m1lpVLC4GMehugShhoEQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=women+with+wings+deborah+klein+concertina+book

Symbols in their work.

GINA MATCHITT

Title: Merchandise 1999

Size: 4cm w x 7cm h

This artist is called Gina Matchitt, who is a New Zealand born artist from Rotorua, who's work is based upon her Maori culture. She uses patterns from her culture an makes it her own in her own different way.

Gina Matchitt used different kinds of material in this work she has done, using fine silver, laminated card, cigarette packaging, aluminium can and paua. She used these materials to form these kinds of symbols, like the religious cross, and the nike swooooosh logo, where she used the Paua shell.

I like Gina's work because looking through them is very eye catching. I like the way she used the Paua shell, how she layed them out to make a tick.

reference: 

http://www.ginamatchitt.com/content.html?page=1

Jewellery from the past..

Jewellery from the past.

The Jewellery i found from the past is an old brooch from the 1950's. This is called " The Great 1950's green-stone brooch".

The size of this brooch is 2 1/2".

This piece of brooch was made from green-stone, supported by a bronze looking metal.

I found another Jewellery called the "Vintage Dane-craft sterling silver floral brooch. The size of this Jewellery is 2 1/4".

This brooch was made from silver metal, and it had been carved/melted to make a flower in the middle.

This Jewellery was made for a purpose. Back in the days people needed something to hold pieces of clothing together, and this is when the pins came in handy, and this was the first time pins were invented, then they started decorating the pin and slowly became a brooch.


Researching this sort of Jewellery was cool. I found it interesting because i learnt about why brooches were made and why it is useful.


Reference: 

http://www.decadesvintage.com/jewelry/brooch32.shtml
http://www.tewgalleries.com/brooches